Title: Food truck scheduling model
Authors: Hironori Harada; Masaki Kohana; Shusuke Okamoto
Addresses: Graduate School of Science and Technology, Seikei University, Tokyo, Japan ' Graduate School of Science and Technology, Seikei University, Tokyo, Japan ' Graduate School of Science and Technology, Seikei University, Tokyo, Japan
Abstract: In this paper, a scheduling model for a food truck, which moves around the city and provides a food service in some locations, is presented. For this type of service, several options exist for selling, routing, and service times for given locations. The optimal combination of these selections produces good sales performance. The background of this study is herein provided, as well as a scheduling example, problem formulation, and an experiment with realistic data.
Keywords: food trucks; truck scheduling; combinatorial optimisation; food services; selling; vehicle routing; service times.
DOI: 10.1504/IJSSC.2016.077973
International Journal of Space-Based and Situated Computing, 2016 Vol.6 No.2, pp.113 - 120
Received: 30 Nov 2015
Accepted: 29 May 2016
Published online: 28 Jul 2016 *